Jesmyn Ward Quotes

People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Powerful
  • Fight
  • Alliance

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Believe
  • Decisions
  • Medical

• The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

  

  Iman
  • Child
  • Patience
  • Difference

• I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music
  • Selfish

• At any age, we struggle with intimacy. When you're a kid, you think, 'I won't have that problem. I'll have sex whenever I want when I'm a grown-up!' And then, somehow, it doesn't quite turn out that way, and it's so surprising to people that connection remains so challenging even when you're married.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Mind
  • Present
  • Memory

• People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • College